Today's news is a mix of dungeon and Legion beta--Method Challenge Mode Strategy guides, the Draenor Dungeon Event, and the Demon Bounty event for beta keys!

Background Download

A 20GB background download has popped up on Battle.net. Historically, these appear several weeks before a patch goes live and with less than two months before Legion, it's likely this is related to the pre-patch.

To learn more about what's coming in the pre-expansion patch, check out our overview.

Testing Legion Launch

Kaivax

At about 11:00 a.m. PDT on July 7, we’ll take the Beta down for a few hours to prepare. Then, at 3:00 p.m. PDT, we’ll bring the Beta up for testers to log in. During this time, you will only have access to Warlords of Draenor content, and any of your characters above level 100 will temporarily be unable to login. Once enough players have logged in, we will begin broadcasting server messages to indicate that Legion is about to go “live”.

As the expansion “launches”, you will be automatically prompted with new quests to start your adventures in Legion. Please follow them through to conclusion, and play through your class Order Hall opening quests. This will give us a useful look at our live launch.

We need your help identifying issues, and we’ll be looking for your feedback on the test launch in this thread and via in-game bug reports.

Thank you very much!

Method Strategy Guides

Legion's launch date was announced for August 30th, and we wrote a massive guide to how to prepare for the pre-patch. Some content is going away, including Warlords Challenge Modes and unique rewards. To that end, we've teamed up with <Method> to create a series of Challenge Mode guides!

The full series of Challenge Mode guides is now complete. You can find the videos embedded on our dungeon guides or on our Method Video Guide Playlist:

Blizzard

World of Warcraft: Legion is on the horizon, but before you move on from Draenor, here’s a reminder that you may have some unfinished business to attend to – before it’s too late. Challenge Mode dungeons will no longer be available with the Legion pre-expansion patch, which like previous expansions, will arrive a few weeks before Legion’s release.

Draenor Challenge Modes Ending

If you’re looking to make one last push for your Challenge Mode rewards– now is the time. You’ll have until the release of the pre-expansion patch to earn some very desirable rewards, including:

If you haven’t yet crossed the finish line with Challenge Modes, don’t hold back! For a nudge in the right direction if you’re having problems with any particular Draenor dungeon, check out Wowhead’s zone overviews and strategy guides.

Fight to the finish!

Demon Bounty Beta Event

Legion beta key giveaways continue today with a fun interactive event! Different streamers are giving away keys, and for your chance to enter, you'll need to screenshot certain types of demons in game.

Here are some famous demons: 萨洛拉丝女王 (Eredar), 邪钻 (Infernal), 莎赫拉丝主母 (Shivarra), 燃烧恶魔卫士 (Felguard), 天怒预言者苏克拉底 (Wrathguard), 玛尔加尼斯 (Dreadlord). Use the comments and maps on Wowhead pages to track down a particular demon for the screenshot!

Wowhead's own beta key giveaways continue as well: for week 8 we're looking at achievements themed around Sylvanas and the Vrykul.

Blizzard

The Burning Legion is heading our way and to help thin the number of demons already in the lands of Azeroth, we’ve teamed up with various community members to set a bounty on their heads.

We’ve gathered some of our finest generals from the community to lead the onslaught. You’ll want to follow them closely and be ready to jump into the fray to take on the demon they issue a bounty on. Once the demon is targeted, you’ll be asked to head into Azeroth, Outland, or Draenor, to screenshot any demon of that specific type (dead or alive), and tweet it using the associated hashtag.

Your efforts could result in netting you a key to the Legion beta test and joining the thousands who have already been testing the upcoming expansion.

Follow these community members at the times listed below to take your shot:

You can also follow Warcraft on Twitter to keep tabs on all of the demon bounties.

Snap to it! What are you waiting for?

Draenor Dungeon Event

For this week's 德拉诺地下城活动 bonus event, defeating enemies in Heroic or Mythic Draenor dungeons will award you with various Draenor reputations. You will have the buff 使者印记 which will grant you the reputation. In addition, you can pick up the quest 战争的使者 (Complete 4 Mythic Draenor dungeons) which awards an 钢铁舰队宝箱 and 500 Valor. This cache contains a Heroic-level Hellfire Citadel item.

To gain even more reputation in dungeons, build a Level 3 Trading Post for a 20% gain.There are lots of rewards from Draenor Reputations, including mounts, toys, pets, titles, and gear.Check out all of our detailed Draenor Reputation Guides.

Heroics

You can use the LFD tool in game to queue right into your dungeon.

You can queue with a full party of five, or if you have fewer members the tool will fill the party for you.

To Solo Queue for Warlords Heroics, you must obtain Silver Proving Grounds. Learn how to complete Proving Grounds with our guide.

You can complete achievements in Heroic mode, working towards 德拉诺英雄的荣耀 which awards 霜原斗猪

You can complete the quests you have for toys, pets, gear and more from your 坠月旅店 / 霜壁旅社 等级3 while you are queing this weekend. You can see a full list of rewards here. This weekend is a great time to get through your old Inn quests for 驻足倾听, which awards a Level 3 Inn and unlocks Treasure Missions.

评论

评论来自 Ecchiholic

on 2016-07-06T15:31:40-05:00

In the last part about Mythic Dungeons, there is a spelling error, it should be Draenor Dungeons instead of Dugeon.

评论来自 trest

on 2016-07-06T15:38:51-05:00

Has it been announced yet if the Heirloom Trinkets from the Draenor Mythic Dungeons will still be available in the Pre-Patch and/or Legion? Or are they going to be no longer available like the SoO/Garrosh heirlooms?

评论来自 imemerson

on 2016-07-06T16:00:02-05:00

I'd also like to know whether they'll continue to drop. I have the feeling they won't drop, but it sure would be nice if they would. Either way, some confirmation would be awesome.

评论来自 Feelthechill

on 2016-07-06T16:21:27-05:00

i'd like to know too, missing intellect one :(

评论来自 AKPlayer

on 2016-07-06T17:10:50-05:00

I really wish Blizzard did some sort of logical thinking before they kick off events like this one today. Complete CHAOS and some serious technical limitations of the solution to "Fairly" give away keys to people.

At least with Wowhead they maintained the details and a list of winners. The Streamers are each doing things completely different and even lack some logical approach to awarding KEY's.

评论来自 Ruiru

on 2016-07-06T17:24:38-05:00

I really wish Blizzard did some sort of logical thinking before they kick off events like this one today. Complete CHAOS and some serious technical limitations of the solution to "Fairly" give away keys to people.

At least with Wowhead they maintained the details and a list of winners. The Streamers are each doing things completely different and even lack some logical approach to awarding KEY's.

Agree, for this event you basically had to post a screenshot at the right moment or you got screwed. Many people even just used google images instead, or even posted pics from beta itself.

评论来自 burningeagles

on 2016-07-06T17:40:34-05:00

I'm doing mythic dungeon testing now to find out if they will drop still on beta. I'll let you know if I do manage to get any to drop.

评论来自 hersfold

on 2016-07-06T17:45:54-05:00

Regarding the reputation bonuses for the Draenor Dungeon event, those factions are the ones you earn reputation for if you aren't already fully Exalted with that faction. If you are already exalted, it seems to switch over to another faction you still need reputation for. I was running Skyreach earlier and was still earning rep for Sha'tari Defense (I'm already Exalted with all of the others). I'm not sure how it determines which factions to fall back on, though.

评论来自 azahel

on 2016-07-06T18:02:43-05:00

For whatever reason, it comes limited at 100kbps. Make sure to change it for a faster download.

评论来自 jafs1981

on 2016-07-06T18:20:12-05:00

I know method are the best raiders, and i admire/respect them for that, but why not just do a partnership with fatboss, their guides are much better, maybe because they are better/more experienced at doing it (the guides). Like i said, i respect method very much, but the alternative is much, much better...

评论来自 Hathegkla

on 2016-07-06T18:24:31-05:00

hmmmm... it's very interesting. But I guess things will setup still no dates tho but this is a start.

评论来自 Thewishmasternl

on 2016-07-06T18:25:44-05:00

I hope you guys are not really downloading the update with that low speed

评论来自 EvielthinStealth

I did a mythic dungeon with my guild to see how things went and an heirloom did in fact drop for someone. Idk if that is going to change, but as is they do drop in ptr prepatch

评论来自 drraposa

on 2016-07-06T19:08:30-05:00

Did they say anything about a title akin to Mistwalker? For those who held a realm-best time and feat of strenght on WoD challenge modes?

评论来自 tresrottn

on 2016-07-06T19:18:29-05:00

I really wish Blizzard did some sort of logical thinking before they kick off events like this one today. Complete CHAOS and some serious technical limitations of the solution to "Fairly" give away keys to people.

At least with Wowhead they maintained the details and a list of winners. The Streamers are each doing things completely different and even lack some logical approach to awarding KEY's.

One streamer took the opportunity to laugh at and bash the player base.One streamer threw all his keys out in the first 30 minutes by picking the ones he liked then went off to play elsewhere (on the beta). 90 minutes left in his time slot. (also took time to laugh at and bash the playerbase)One streamer was banned for posting genitals (never heard of previewing the images prior to showing them, I guess) on the live stream (I admit, I lol'd)One streamer realized the random generator was only picking names of people who had posted within the last minute prior to the generator being used. It caused people to spam in batches and get locked out of posting on Twitter. He also said he wasn't going to be giving them out all during the 2 hour window (the ones allotted for this event) but would be giving them out all week.

I gave up after what I witnessed. It simply wasn't worth the crazy hoops each streamer was choosing to use as well as the hoops Blizzard had already established.

I going to take a quick guess here and conclude that they were just handed a pile of keys and told to go crazy. Oh, and make sure they were streaming during that time slot.

评论来自 Dwarwen

on 2016-07-06T19:22:11-05:00

Challenge Mode weapons when Legion release came account bound right?

评论来自 Razorgrace

on 2016-07-06T19:24:36-05:00

Download speed limit is set in your battle.net app. For downloads that are not immediately required to play the game (like pre-patch data), default is 100KB/s. It's up to you to set it to higher value, or to 0 which means "no limit".

评论来自 xYusuke23x

on 2016-07-06T19:29:44-05:00

I really wish Blizzard did some sort of logical thinking before they kick off events like this one today. Complete CHAOS and some serious technical limitations of the solution to "Fairly" give away keys to people.

At least with Wowhead they maintained the details and a list of winners. The Streamers are each doing things completely different and even lack some logical approach to awarding KEY's.

Completely agree. Swifty's in particular was absolute chaos and just plain stupid.